Perversions

Deviant Readings by Mandy Merck

By: Mandy Merck

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Paperback | 14 June 1993 | Edition Number 1

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In this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, critic Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Her chapters are readings "of" "perversions"--male and female homosexuality. At the same time, Merck's ideas "are" perversions--readings that pervert, or turn away, from our usual understandings.
Amon the unlikely subjects of Merck's critical eye are lesbian S/M, Simone de Beauvoir's litle-known study of Brigitte Bardot, the gay videoporn hit "More of a Man," and the television production of "Portrait of a Marriage." Her criticism is refreshingly original, resulting in ways of seeing that toe no party lines. Drawing their power from a resistance to easy conclusions, Mandy Merck's deviant and refreshing readings are always perverse.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Case histories
The train of thought in Freud's 'Case of Homosexuality in a Woman'	p. 13
The critical cult of Dora	p. 33
A case of AIDS	p. 45
Portraits
Marilyn Monroe by Gloria Steinem, Brigitte Bardot by Simone de Beauvoir	p. 61
'Transforming the Suit': a century of lesbian self-portraits	p. 86
Portrait of a marriage?	p. 101
Heroines
The Amazons of ancient Athens	p. 121
Lianna and the lesbians of art cinema	p. 162
From robot to romance	p. 177
Sexual politics
The fatal attraction of Intercourse	p. 195
More of a Man: gay porn cruises gay politics	p. 217
The feminist ethics of lesbian s/m	p. 236
Notes	p. 267
Index	p. 294
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